Perfection

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed Perfection, promptly wrote at the foot of the letter I don't agree with you, and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

- Francois Voltaire Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.

- Alfred Tennyson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

- Les Brown Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

- Adam Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection

- Jalal Rumi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

- John Locke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good --that is perfection and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They played to perfection tonight.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- George S. Patton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

- Henri Frederic Amiel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

- Marcus Quintilian Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

- Antonio Tabucchi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

- John Grant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

- Rabindranath Tagore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection.

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He from whom all beings originate, and by whom all this universe is pervaded worshipping Him by performing one's natural duty for Him one attains perfection.

- Bhagavad-Gita Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

- John Ruskin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's like people expect me to criticize my mother who died when I was fifteen because all I knew from her was perfection, you know

- Gordon Parks Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think Michael really brings the heart and the soul to this thing. The character of Coffey has to be perfection. If that role isn't perfection, if it's not played to perfection by an actor who can be vulnerable and expose his heart, I think the movie fails.

- Frank Darabont Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What you have going on in this market is a flight to quality, which is the blue chips, as tech stocks are priced to perfection.

- Alan Skrainka Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes